# Revalidation Tracker

> Nurse revalidation hours for the NMC: 450 practice hours, 35 hours CPD with 20 participatory, five pieces of feedback, five reflections. GMC cycle covered too.

## Key facts

- NMC revalidation runs on a three-year cycle and requires 450 practice hours for a single registration, 900 hours for two registrations and 1,350 hours for triple registration.
- The NMC CPD requirement is 35 hours over three years, of which at least 20 hours must have included participatory learning.
- Participatory learning, in the NMC's own definition, is any activity involving interaction with one or more other professionals, in a physical or a virtual environment.
- NMC revalidation requires five pieces of practice-related feedback and five written reflective accounts recorded on the NMC's mandatory form.
- A confirmer should be the registrant's line manager where possible, and the NMC states that a line manager does not have to be an NMC-registered nurse or midwife.
- If a nurse, midwife or nursing associate has not met the practice hours, the NMC requires an approved return to practice programme or a Test of Competence before the renewal application.
- A doctor's revalidation recommendation is made by a responsible officer based on annual appraisals across five years, and colleague and patient feedback is required once in each five-year cycle (NHS England).

## Key pages

- [Nurse revalidation hours: what does the NMC require?](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [NMC revalidation CPD hours: 35 in 3 years, 20 participatory](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/nmc-revalidation-cpd-hours/): 35 hours of CPD over three years, at least 20 of them participatory. What counts, what the NMC asks your records to contain, and how participatory learning is defined.
- [Who can be your NMC revalidation confirmer? Your line manager](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/nmc-revalidation-confirmer/): Where possible your line manager, who need not be NMC-registered; otherwise an NMC-registered nurse, midwife or nursing associate. Never a family member or close friend.
- [NMC revalidation checklist: all eight requirements](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/nmc-revalidation-checklist/): The eight NMC revalidation requirements in order, which forms are mandatory, what is submitted and what you keep, and where the process most often stalls.
- [GMC revalidation: what doctors need for the five-year cycle](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/gmc-revalidation-requirements/): How medical revalidation works: designated body, responsible officer, annual appraisal, six types of supporting information, and feedback once in each five-year cycle.
- [NMC revalidation and GMC revalidation side by side](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/#data): original data table, updated 2026-08-15.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- NMC revalidation and GMC revalidation side by side. Methodology: The NMC column is taken from the requirement pages on nmc.org.uk (practice hours, CPD, practice-related feedback, written reflective accounts, reflective discussion, confirmation and the requirements overview), each read on 15 August 2026. The GMC column is taken from NHS England's medical revalidation pages and from the Royal College of General Practitioners' appraisal supporting information guidance (published 31 January 2025), both read on the same day; gmc-uk.org refused our automated checks on that date, so nothing in the GMC column is quoted from the GMC's own site and the row for CPD volume records that absence rather than filling it. Read the GMC's own guidance on supporting information for appraisal and revalidation alongside this table.
- Last updated: 2026-08-15. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: NMC, revalidation requirements overview: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/
- Source: NMC, practice hours: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/practice-hours/
- Source: NMC, continuing professional development: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/cpd/
- Source: NMC, practice-related feedback: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/practice-related-feedback/
- Source: NMC, written reflective accounts: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/written-reflective-accounts/
- Source: NMC, reflective discussion: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/reflective-discussion/
- Source: NMC, confirmation: https://www.nmc.org.uk/revalidation/requirements/confirmation/
- Source: NHS England, what is revalidation: https://www.england.nhs.uk/medical-revalidation/about-us/what-is-revalidation/
- Source: NHS England, 10 steps to revalidation for doctors: https://www.england.nhs.uk/professional-standards/medical-revalidation/doctors/10-steps/
- Source: NHS England, colleague and patient feedback: https://www.england.nhs.uk/professional-standards/medical-revalidation/doctors/feedback/
- Source: RCGP, supporting information and reflection on your appraisal (31 January 2025): https://www.rcgp.org.uk/your-career/revalidation/appraisal-supporting-information

## Citation

Cite as: "NMC revalidation and GMC revalidation side by side", Revalidation Tracker, https://revalidationtracker.co.uk/ (updated 2026-08-15).

## About

- Revalidation Tracker is an information site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the General Medical Council, NHS England or the Royal College of General Practitioners, and nothing on it is medical, professional or legal advice. Requirements are set by your regulator and can change: confirm the current position on nmc.org.uk or gmc-uk.org before you submit. We could not read gmc-uk.org on 15 August 2026 because the site refused our automated checks, so the doctors' content here is sourced from NHS England and the RCGP and says so wherever it matters.
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